Safety first: Volvo to add in-car sensors to prevent drunk driving

ronjor · Mar 20, 2019

Esha Vaish March 20, 2019

GOTHENBURG (Reuters) - Swedish automaker Volvo hopes to reinforce its reputation for safety-first driving by installing cameras and sensors in its cars from the early 2020s, monitoring drivers for signs of being drunk or distracted and intervening to prevent accidents.
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guest · Oct 17, 2019

U.S. senators want carmakers to install tech that detects drunk drivers
October 17, 2019
https://venturebeat.com/2019/10/17/...s-to-install-tech-that-detects-drunk-drivers/

Two U.S. senators on Wednesday plan to introduce legislation that would require automakers to install technology to prevent intoxicated drivers from starting a vehicle by the middle of the next decade.

Senators Tom Udall (D) and Rick Scott (R) will introduce legislation to mandate such technology on all new vehicles within about four years of the bill’s passage and direct the federal government to work with automobile manufacturers, suppliers, universities, and others to ensure those vehicles are available for sale at the earliest practical date.
Udall said he believes the technology will be ready.

“This issue has a real urgency to it,” Udall said in an interview with Reuters. “The industry is often resistant to new mandates. We want their support, but we need to do this whether or not we have it — lives are at stake.”
In March, Swedish carmaker Volvo said it planned to install cameras and sensors in its cars from the early 2020s, monitoring drivers for signs of being drunk or distracted and intervening to prevent accidents.

Advocacy group Mothers Against Drunk Driving backs the effort to mandate the technology. J.T. Griffin, the group’s chief government affairs officer, said the group is “going all out on this. We see this as how we are going to eliminate drunk driving.”
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deBoetie · Oct 18, 2019

Not before time, but I've always favored a simple reaction-time test rather than a more restricted and complex alcohol test - after all, people are dangerous driving with a range of drugs, tired, faulty vision, and otherwise impaired.

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